Great Royalty Free Pictures

There are iStockphoto, Getty Image, Corbis, Fotolia, etc... Great pictures, but you have to pay to use them, even if it's only to practise Photoshop. You also have Google images, but the pictures are not always aesthetic, and above all most of them have a copyright.

Today we'll present to you two very good free stock photo sites. If you're searching photos or textures for your non-commercial artworks or to create some images in Photoshop, kavewall.com/stock and photo-libre.fr offer some amazing royalty free pictures, which you can use for all your non-commercial works.

Here's some pictures to make your mouth's watering :

from kavewall (hundreds of images) :

from photo-libre (more than 7000 pictures):

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Xavier Bourdil - http://www.flickr.com/photos/oligoelement/

"Hello all! I'm a 23 years old designer, from Bordeaux (France). I'm a psdtuts member (oligoelement, that's my pseudo), and a huge reader of this website! To me, sharing informations and skills is the best way to progress in graphic creation. I had the occasion to partcipate to this movement by wrinting this post, so I'm very glad to make this contribution! I hope you'll enjoy."

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I'm a 24 years old apprentice graphic designer. I learned most of what I know thanks to internet, so i'm glad to participate, sharing what seems to me great to share!

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how come photo libre only has 16 pics on it?
am i doing something wrong?

Anonymous (not verified) 03/15/2008

thanks for share
nice picture

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digital camera (not verified) 03/13/2008

What about http://www.sxc.hu/ - most of the images can be used commercially.

Great blog BTW

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JR (not verified) 03/11/2008

Hello all

Thanks for the comments!
@simon : you can find it here : http://photoslibre.free.fr/photoslibres/gens/50.jpg

If you are a firefox user, you can point the image with your mouse, then right click, and display image (or something like that, I have firefox in french... However it's the first command in your right click menu). Doing this you're be able to see the original link ;.)

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Xavier (not verified) 03/11/2008

All my pics on Flickr are under CC license Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic.
Some exceptions occur. Please feel free to ask for permission for commercial purpose. I'm usually willing to grant permission without charging.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pikkus

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pikkus (not verified) 03/10/2008

Thank you for sharing. Amazing images!

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Magda (not verified) 03/10/2008

What's the first picture from photo-libre called? I can't seem to find it =)

Totally awesome links!!!

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Simon (not verified) 03/10/2008

Merci fabio, c'est vraiment utile :)

et bien sur merci à xavier.

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Arnaud (not verified) 03/10/2008

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